Station or street indicator.



E. W, MoGUTGHEN. STATIDN 03 STREET INDICATOR. APPLICATION rnnnnn.23.1906.

Patented Feb. 2, .1909.

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EDWIN W. MCOUTOHEN, OF PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

STATION OR. STREET INDICATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 1909.

Application filed April 23, 1906. Serial No. 313,159.

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN W. MoCU'roHEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham and State of NewHampshire, have invented a new and useful Station or Street IndicatorDesigned to be Used Railway-Oars, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention is in the form of a set of rolls, having a printedroll-sheet, which, in connection with a lettered sign, indicatesstations with changes or transfers (or streets if rinted and letteredtherefor,) when the rol s are roperly manipulated. I

The c ject of my invention is to give railway car passengers an easy andcontinuous means of ascertaining by visual evidence, the next station,street or stop, with its changes or transfers, as the car runs from onestation, street or sto to another while en route. I attain this 0 jectby the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

which- Figure 1, is an elevation, showing the indicator as the car isapproaching a station; Fig. 2, is a artial elevation, showing theindicator as t e car is arriving at a station; Fig. 3, is a view of ahook used to manipulate the rolls; Fig. 4, is an elevation, the doorsbeing open, showing the indicator as the car is approaching a stationwhere a change is made; Fig. 5, is a section on line 55, of Fig. 4; Fig.6, a portion of the roll-sheet to show the method of printing the'same.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The u rights or standards A A, together with the ottom board B, and thetop board C, constitute the framework of the indicator. The indicatormaybe secured to the ceiling of a car by the hangers I I, or by anyother suitable hangers, as those shown in the drawings form no art of myinvention. Both sides of the in icator, (A to A), are to all intentsidentical with that shown in Fig. 1.

The indicator is desi ned to be hung midway of a car, the parallels ofthe frame B C, over, and at right angles with the aisle, or crosswise ofit, so that either side of the indicator can be readily viewed; it may,however, be hung at any convenient place. The double doors DE DE,respectively the same on opposite sides of the indicator, when closed,serve to lessen the exposure of the printed roll-sheet G, as illustratedin Fig. 1,

and, when open, as illustrated in Fig. 4, to expose the aforementionedroll-sheet in its entire extension on rollers f f and II. The rollsheetG is secured at either end to rollers f The partial exposure of theprinted rollsheet G allows the name of one station to be exhibited at atime, as in Fig. 1, and the entire ex osure of the extension of saidrollsheet alows the space necessary to exhibit the names of changes ortransfers, also, as illustrated in Fig. 4. The doors DE DE are securedby buttons and cleats e c (see Fig. 1). The roll-sheet G is printed onone side with the succession of the names of the stations, (with suchchanges or transfers as are incident thereto) for a particular run, inthe manner illustrated in Fig. 6, every name of a station, change ortransfer, being printed twice thereon. This method of printing theroll-sheet G allows the name of any station, or stations, rinted thereonto be exhibited on either si e of the angle formed by said roll-sheet inits extension on rollers f f and H, and, therefore, on opposite sides ofthe indicator simultaneously.

v The printed roll-sheet G may be rolled over roller H until the name ofany station to be shown appears on opposite sides of the indicator,over' tops of doors DE, DE, re s ectively, providing no changes areshown therewith, and, in connection with the lettered or printed sign F,referred to hereinafter, it indicates the next station as the car aproaches such while en route. The printed ro -sheet G may be rolled fromone roller f to the other, alternately, over roller H. For clearcomprehension of the movement of rollsheet G, see Fig. 5.

When the car is approaching a station where a change is made, the doorsDE DE may be opened and the indicator then indicates the next stationwith changes or transfers as illustrated in Fig. 4.

The rollers ff are fitted in standards A A and run freely. The rollers ff are iron or metal, the weight of which is expressly designed totighten, to make roll well, and to arrest, or prevent unwinding of therollsheet G as it is manipulated. The iron or metal winding rollers f fmake the roll-sheet G stop well at any point and are in the interest ofsimplicity, allowing easy operation of the device, and makingunnecessary, springs, brakes, tension rollers, or other devices tocontrol the roll-sheet,

The roller H is reduced in diameter at either end, and is fitted instandards A A,

see Figs. 1, 2, 4 and runsfreely, serving to extend roll-sheet G fromrollers f f, and to allow free movement of said roll-sheet when rollersf f are manipulated. The disks or linger-wheels K K, having teeth, aresecured near one end of each roller ff, overlapping each other, andprojecting through notched doors E E (when the doors are closed) onopposite sides of the indicator.

The hook L may be used to turn the rollers f f, by hooking it into theteeth of either of wheels K K where such project through doors E E, seeFig. 1, and pulling downward, thus turning one roller f and rolling orwinding roll-sheet G from one roller f to the other over roller H atwill. The disks or finger-wheels K K may be manipulated by hand, also,if within reach. The hook L may be used to turn buttons 6 e, and openthe doors DE DE by means of knobs d (i, also.

The quadrangular sign F turns on pivots c c and is letteredon oppositesides, (the re maining sides being blank) in the manner illustrated in Figs. 1, 4, to correspond to, and to beread inconnection with, the namesof the stations printed on the roll-sheet G as said names of stationsare successively rolled into view on opposite sides of the indicator.

A cord is secured to one end of'sign F at a, see Fig. 5, which passesdownward inside and close to one standard A, through a hole in bottomboard B, as illustrated in dotted lines, whence it returns in similarfashion and is secured to sign F at b. The loop thus formed extendsbelow the indicator, see Figs. 1, 4, 5, and by means of it the signF,

balanced on pivots c 6, may be turned so as to show either its letteredor its blank sides.

The indicator as illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings is shown aslettered and printed for steam cars, I therefore, have omitted the useof the word street in the detailed part of this specification as tendingto confuse. To make the indicator suitable for a street car is merely amatter of proper lettering on sign F and of printing" on rollsheet G.The method of using the indicator maybe as follows: At the beginning ofa run, the indicator may be set as illustrated in Fig. 1, and when thecar is arriving at a station. thus indicated, the sign F may be turnedblank, see Fig. 2, then as the car resumes its run, said sign may beturned to show its lettered sides again, and another name of a stationmay be rolled into View and so on to the end of the run. One indicatormay be taken down and another substituted,il' suitable hangers areprovided.

\Vhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

In a station or street indicator, the combination of two lower winding"rollers, said rollers being made heavy or loaded as gravity windingrollers, a roll-sheet attached at its ends to said winding; rollers andhaving station or street names marked thereon, a third upper roller overwhich said roll-sheet passes all substantially as and for the purposespecified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDVIN W MGCUTCHFN.

Witnesses:

HARRY K. Tommy, EMILY STAVERS.

